How to Overcome the Fear of Selling Your First Digital Product
It’s the only path to lasting freedom
As a content creator, you can have various income streams:
Advertising products (brand collaborations), running ads on your content (Youtube), asking for donations (Patreon), publishing your content behind a paywall (Medium), or selling products.
Most creators prefer the first four options: ads, donations, and paywalls. I love the path less traveled: Selling.
I prefer selling digital products because that’s the only way I can control 100% of the outcome. If you’re selling a digital product, you’re responsible for:
- Creating an epic product
- Building an audience (preferably an email list), that’s interested in that product
- Creating a killer sales page
- Writing kickass copy
- And so much more
Once you’ve gone through all these stages multiple times, you’ll eventually end up enjoying them. But if it’s your first time creating a digital product like an ebook or online course, the selling part of the game might seem frightening.
When I launched my first product in 2018, I hated every second of the journey. Today, I’m in love with the…